Welcome to Year 3 2015-2016

Staff in Year 3 Miss Turnbull Class Teacher Mrs Walsh Teaching Assistant Ms King Teacher - Fridays

Typical Day 8.50am – 9.00am Registration 9.00am – 9.20am Spelling/handwriting 9.20am – 10.00am Maths 10.00am – 10.15am Worship 10.15am – 10.30am Break 10.30am – 10.50am Maths 10.50am – 11.45am English 11.45am – 12.10pm Reading 12.10pm – 1.10pm Lunch 1.10pm – 3.10pm Curriculum sessions

Class Routines Changing reading books – bug club will be changed as the children are ready and children need to have these in school everyday. Children are currently being reassessed but will get a book by the end of this half term. Children will have the opportunity to change their library books weekly but are welcome to keep them for longer. PE lessons – Tuesday afternoon and Friday mornings

What has changed from year 2? KS2 – older half of school No free milk or fruit – however they can bring some fruit in if they want for morning play No afternoon play Different cloakroom and toilets New routines – leave book bags on pegs and bring in reading, spelling and library books and put in trays Shorter lunchtime – 12.10 instead of 12.00 Different playground

School Uniform For Girls: Grey skirt/pinafore dress/smart school trousers Gold or bottle green polo shirt or white blouse Bottle green jumper or cardigan Summer - Green or yellow check/stripe dress For Boys: Grey (not black) smart school trousers (or shorts in summer) Gold or bottle green polo shirt or White shirt Bottle green jumper or cardigan Boys & Girls: Black sensible school shoes (flat heels) or plain black trainers Black pumps

PE Uniform P.E. and games kit Black PE Shorts Plain round necked t-Shirt (in team colour) Change of socks Trainers for outdoor activity (on days required) – will wear black pumps for indoor activity Jogging bottoms, sweatshirt/waterproof coat (for outdoor PE) Teams and colours: LION - Red TIGER - Blue PANTHER - Yellow JAGUAR – Green Pupils must remove all jewellery for PE lessons.

IMPORTANT: IDENTIFICATION OF CLOTHING AND PROPERTY Naming clothing IMPORTANT: IDENTIFICATION OF CLOTHING AND PROPERTY Please mark all items of clothing, footwear and other property brought to school with the child's name. Lost property boxes are located in the cloakrooms but these get really full and are hard to return to the correct owner without names!

Art / Design Technology Curriculum Core Subjects: English Maths Science ICT RE Foundation Subjects: History / Geography Music PE Art / Design Technology PSHCE French

Homework Reading and discussing a book with an adult at least three times a week. Please record this in your child’s reading record book and on their challenge sheet if applicable Weekly spellings (Ms King to test and give out on a Friday) multiplication tables (your child will tell you which timetable they are working on) A Maths, Literacy or Topic task given out on a Wednesday and expected back on a Monday Termly/half termly topic challenge

Topics The Stone Age What makes the earth angry (earthquakes and natural disasters) Lowry Plants Saltaire Healthy eating Roald Dahl

Trips & Visits The Yorkshire Museum of Farming – Murton Park (The Stone Age) – 18th November = £27 per child Chinese New Year workshop – 10th January Dance = = £20 per child Saltaire (History topic) - Summer 1 (May/June – waiting for call back) Eureka (Science) – (July – can’t book until Spring term) workshop and Gallery £7.25 plus coach …?

Rewards We praise and reward children for good behaviour in a variety of ways: verbal praise; stickers or stamps; ticks - certificates for every 10 ticks they receive; achievement award and ethos award – one child from each class each week; lunchtime award; class rewards chart to encourage the children to work together; all classes have an opportunity to lead a class assembly where they are able to show examples of their best work.

Discipline Traffic light system: Green – good behaviour Amber – verbal warning Red – spend 5 minutes in another classroom, reflecting on their behaviour. Continued misbehaviour: Work in another classroom for a longer period of time where they will be asked to copy out the class rules so they understand what part of their behaviour needs improving. They will also miss the next playtime. During this playtime they will be expected to discuss with an adult what they did and how this behaviour has impacted on themselves and others. Meeting will be called between the classteacher and the parents. Following on from this meeting, a meeting with the headteacher would be requested if an improvement to behaviour had not occurred. If a child threatens, hurts or bullies another pupil, the class teacher records the incident and the child is punished. If a child repeatedly acts in a way that disrupts or upsets others, the school contacts the child’s parents and seeks an appointment in order to discuss the situation, with a view to improving the behaviour of the child.

General Information Friday Worship 9.00am – please join us Church services – You are welcome to join us for ANY Church services (including Y6 leavers’ service). Trips – I would love you to come along. Sometimes spaces are limited but please let me know if you are interested. PTA – You are all automatically members of the PTA, please join us for meetings or to help at any fundraising events. Talent/expertise – If you would like to share something with the class please let my know and I will feed that into my lessons. The more ‘real’ we can make it for the children the better.

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